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Bruce Walker
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
IT guy by day; photographer by night
Interests: fashion & portrait photography, music, IT
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The Pentax K20D with DA* 55/1.4 SDM lens.
Your Favorite Digital Camera
Just a quick question—what's your #1 favorite digital camera of all time? Not the best one you've ever used, but the one you liked best. For any reason—familiarity, results, whatever. Or, if you're primarily a film photographer now, what's your favorite film camera? Just name one please—and plea...
> But the Pentax lens is already too expensive, in my
> humble opinion, at $800,
Having been shooting with a DA*55/1.4 for just over four years, I humbly disagree. Lightroom stats show that 25% of all of my shots were taken with it. It's worth every penny.
> and—most importantly of all—it is just too,
> too blisteringly sharp for portraits.
Easily fixed in a few seconds with a good portrait plugin like Imagenomics Portraiture. I'd rather have a sharp, general purpose lens and have to flatter portraits in software than do it optically with an expensive specific-purpose lens that's useless for most everything else.
Zeiss Monster
It's almost reassuring to see that some things never change. Zeiss (recently it dropped the "Carl" in a move I have to say I disapprove of) has announced a line of quality-no-object—and, more importantly no doubt, price-no-object—SLR lenses. (The way one of the members of the development team...
I haven't so much lately but for several years I haunted classic car meets and took a lot of car detail shots. Here are a couple of my better efforts. The first one was hung in a curated Chicago exhibition (Scharpenberg Gallery) of Pentax Discuss Mail List folks in 2010.
Who Shoots Cars?
This is gone now. I like to imagine it's been completely restored, and is now a dazzling showpiece.... I was mulling over writing an article about genres or categories of photographs, and the way in which some of those categories appeal to us and some don't. For instance, I've never been very ...
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